F. Di Caprio was a graduate student of my friend and colleague at Notre Dame. He likes to tell the story that his student was telling him that he had “a cousin in Hollywood” “who was about to become famous”, and as he tells the story, “So I told my student, get outa here! No one is going to believe you.”

One of my younger son’s favorite stories to tell about clueless people is from the HUGE run up to “Titanic” being released.

He had two people in his Junior year in HS who had exactly the same class schedule. One was a girl who was, and I’m being kind, a flaming air headed ditz! She was in marching band with him and what she didn’t know was most everything knowable to a teenager.

After talking non-stop for weeks about the movie, she spent the final three or four days going on and on and on about seeing the movie seeing DeCaprio, the fancy clothes on the commercials, blah, blah, 17 y/o air headed blah, even during class. She was going into every class, and starting over from the beginning of her speech, to each new group of her girlfriends.

Sometime late on Thursday afternoon, having finally had e – nuff, he turned to her and said, “…you do realize this isn’t going to be happily ever after, the ship SINKS in the movie!”

Tears, and sobbing, “…well, sob sob, I guess I don’t have to sob sob, see THAT now!!!”

I didn’t get a phone call from the teacher that time, but I did get a note questioning my sons ‘open cruelty’ in class. I just sent back a note asking just how telling the truth, about a historical event was cruel, even if it did give away the end of the movie. I didn’t get an answer.

I’m guessing she was on the edge of her seat during “Apollo Thirteen” when they saw that in Science Class?

From the looks of the pics on those tweets those people were not even alive when the movie was first released. It is thoughts like this that caused me to clean out my closet because no one should say that kids graduating hs are younger than some of your underwear.

It is scary to think that there are kids who have never seen police academy but I guess that’s why they are remaking everything.

I know, right? They didn’t have global warming back then, so there were no iceberg’s like there are now. Besides, I saw “Frozen Planet” and ships were working next to icebergs all the time and not sinking.